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Friday, April 2, 2010

I really like the monogram art Ballard Designs has on their site… the price, not so much. Then I saw on another blog something similar with a name added… loved it! Unfortunately, I don’t remember what blog I saw it on; if I can find it I will update this post with the info. Here is the Ballard Designs photo:

Dafont.com offers a lot of free fonts, that is where I found the monogram. I used microsoft publisher to create my my image and sized it to 8 x 10 then printed it on 8.5 x 11 linen textured cardstock. The linen texture kind of gives it the look of being printed on canvas… however, I don’t think this shows up in the photo.

I found my frame at Big Lots for $7 and spray painted it black… it is actually a solid wood frame, not plastic, a great find.

The frame came with a very nice double mat too, a nice textured cream colored mat with a silver second border mat toward the inside. The cream color didn’t work with my color scheme, so I painted it with an inexpensive craft paint and left the silver part of the mat as is.

I used post-it notes to tape off the silver part of the mat... my hand is not steady enough to free hand it. :-)

I really like how it turned out. Then I thought... wouldn't it look great as notecards....

Then I thought... it doesn't have to be a name, it could even be inspirational words...

18 comments:

absolutely delightful! You did a great job on these! I hopped over from Everything Etsy and am so happy that I did. Please accept my invitation to drop in at my place one day soon. Have a fun weekend! until later...